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Abstract
Traumatic hemothorax represents a common, potentially fatal pathology in blunt and penetrating chest trauma.
Bedside ultrasound emerges as a sensitive tool with much higher sensitivity than plain chest x-ray, avoiding the risk of transportation to perform the CT chest and that of radiation exposure.
The aim of this study was to evaluate the sensitivity and the specificity of bedside ultrasound in the detection and the quantification of traumatic hemothorax in comparison to CT chest as the gold standard tool.
The study was a prospective study performed on a registry of 80 patients admitted to the emergency department at the main University Hospital of Alexandria.
The results of this study showed: 71% of the patients were males, 45% of the patients were between 20 to 30 years of age. The mode of trauma in 56% of cases was motor vehicle accidents, and in 33% of cases was falling from height. 38% of the patients were intubated. Bedside US sensitivity in detection of traumatic hemothorax in comparison to the CT chest showed sensitivity of 93% on the right-side chest hemothorax and 100% on the left side chest hemothorax and specificity of 100% on both sides.